Nicole Fields: Single Mother Vanished from Orlando, Florida (FOUND)

Intimate partner violence may have played a part in the recent disappearance of Nicole Fields from Orlando, Florida on Thursday, November 4, 2011 after attending a 9 a.m. hearing at the Osceola County Courthouse.  She had attended a custody hearing trying to get back child support from Steven Louis, her estranged boyfriend, and has not been seen or heard from since that time.

A strange twist, Steven Louis was found in Key West, FL driving the vehicle belonging to Nicole Fields. As police were in pursuit, Louis crashed the car and is now hospitalized with non life threatening injuries.  He will be questioned about circumstances surrounding her disappearance.

Louis had a 2008 aggravated domestic violence charge, which was later dropped.  Family members of Nicole Fields admitted to reporters that Nicole was the victim of that charge.  She had other incidents of violence at the hands of Louis, at one point taking out an order of protection.

According to news reports, Fields' mother called the Sheriff's Office early Friday morning. She became alarmed Thursday when, for the first time ever, Fields did not pick up her two daughters from a babysitter and did not answer her cell phone.

The family is certain Nicole Fields is in grave danger.

Nicole's mother, Sherri, said her daughter regularly called her four to five times a day. But she hasn't had a call since Nicole went to the hearing Thursday.

Nicole's family is taking care of her younger daughter, Kaliya, 2, who is Louis' child. Nicole's older daughter, Nyomi, 8, is with her father.

Nicole Fields is described as a white female, approximately 5-feet-4 inches tall, 150 lbs., with waist-length blond hair and blue eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Osceola County Sheriff's Office at (407) 348-2222 or Crimeline at (800) 423-TIPS (8477).

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-missing-mom-osceola-20111104,0,3443571.story

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57318902-504083/single-fla-mom-missing-after-custody-hearing-possibly-in-danger-say-police/#comments

http://www.wesh.com/news/29683504/detail.html

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/osceola_news/110411-deputies-looking-for-missing-woman

UPDATE

Missing Woman's Body Found on Tip From Estranged Boyfriend

November 10, 2011
The estranged boyfriend of a missing Orlando woman helped lead deputies to an area where her dead body was found Thursday, Osceola County deputies said.

Nicole Fields, 26, was found behind an abandoned house at 612 Robin Lane in Poinciana, deputies said. Deputies consider her death a homicide, but the cause has not yet been determined. 

http://www.theledger.com/article/20111110/NEWS/111119936?Title=Missing-Woman-s-Body-Found-on-Tip-From-Estranged-Boyfriend

Bakersfield Tragedy: Two Mothers Taken

Our hearts are heavy and spirits are in a state of confusion as a senseless tragedy has taken another mother from the face of the earth. Suzan Sowders Fuller of Bakersfield, CA, was gunned down in her own home, along with her mother, Sharon Cannon, in front of her two little girls, 5 and 8. Who would do such a terrible thing? The father of two innocent children and the husband of Suzan.

Going through the various stages of divorce, Suzan was forced to take out an order of protection against her husband, Robert Fuller, who continuously threatened her life and on numerous occasions made moves towards that end. This order of "protection" was violated 7 times, and 7 times Robert Fuller was allowed to go about what he set out to do, he was arrested twice in the two weeks prior to the wee hours of August 8, 2009 when he broke down the door to Suzan's home and accomplished his mission.

Their 8 year old daughter had been taught to dial 9-1-1 if mommy was hurt or if she saw blood. As Robert Fuller came through the door, she was the first to wake up to see what was going on. Her father instructed her to go back to her bedroom, and as she did, her mother and grandmother came into the hallway greeted by the blast of Robert's shotgun. As cowards do, Robert ran, leaving these two precious children to deal with the aftermath.

What more could Suzan have done to prevent this? How many more hoops should she have had to jump through to save her life and the life of her mother? According to a family member, Suzan did everything she could "by the book" and followed through with each resource given her by the system. The system failed once more, and two lives were lost. Two little girls now must live with the heartbreak of losing their mother and grandmother to the "monsters" that creep in the night. This is the thing that nightmares are made of and too many children are left behind suffering. Make it STOP!

Please make a point to listen to The Susan Murphy Milano Show on BlogTalk Radio, Wednesday, August 12. Her guest will be a family member of Susan Sowders Fuller discussing what went wrong, along with Claudine Dombrowski from Mothers Without Custody. The show airs live at 3PM CST, 4PM EST and if you can't make it live, you can listen anytime by going to MurphyMilanoJournal. It will automatically play when you enter the site.